I’m not a classical music listener, though I do enjoy it from time to time. I have a couple of their CD’s and at one time or another have developed deep lustful feelings for a couple of them, but what about their music?
I enjoy listening, they’ve got a few songs in my I-Tunes mix, but I have to admit trying to sit through an entire CD front to back is a little tiring.
What’s the ‘serious’ musicians consensus on these women? Are they hyper-talented performers whoring themselves (in a musical sense) into the commercial world to make some money? Are they borderline really good, and grasping at this because it’s what they can do?
They sound pretty talented. And now that I think of it, the selections of theirs that I like are either the slightly gimmicky ones (1812, Bond on Bond, though I cannot forgive them for covering Zeppelin. IMHO Zeppelin should only be covered with a tarp, then 6 feet of soil, but I digress…) or the nearly unassisted, acoustic ones.
Help me out here, is this a novelty or forces to be reckoned with?
I’ve touted Bond here before. Fortunately, I’m so old that I don’t have to care whether anything is cool or not, so I can just enjoy music for its own sake. And I like Bond’s music. It’s a canny mixture of classical and rock and pop. There hasn’t been much variation over the first three albums, but I think that’s because they’ve found a good schtick and are sticking to it, unlike all the pouty rock groups who think they aren’t doing art if they don’t leave their audience behind with each album.
The CDs are a bit sterile, though, so I’d recommend the Bond - Live at the Royal Albert Hall DVD. Watching them play is far more fun than just listening, and that’s not totally because of their “hotness.”
BTW, Krokodil, you should have warned people with slow connections that your Eroica Trio link was to a 1.6 meg jpeg that took forever to load even with a cable connection.
Thanks Exapno, that’s what I was getting at - I like listening to their music. I was wondering if I should feel guilty or unsophisticated for that, but you’re right. My musical tastes are all over the map anyway - I-Tunes just flew me from Johnny Cash to Blondie to Shivaree.
Next time I see these ladies in town, I’m off to see them I think. I have the Royal Albert Hall DVD in my cart to buy, maybe I’ll just go click there now…
Without passing any judgments on the subjective quality of their music, I think it’s fair to say that very little of what you experience when listening to Bond is the result of their musical abilities, either individually or collectively.
They are sexy. They play well enough to get through the arrangements they perform while gyrating and sweating ostentatiously. And all of them are, from what I know, educated musicians.
But their music is a producer’s vision, pure and simple, so sugared-up with electronics and production techniques that the actual musical abilities of the players are largely obscured. You could insert any reasonably capable and good looking group of string players and get the exact same result - no matter if the players themselves were more or less talented. Their role in the equation is to be sexy and provide “cred” with their backgrounds in classical music.
The rest is electronics, light show, pert lips, and cleavage.
Not that I’m complaining about pert lips and cleavage…
My feeling is, if you’re going to cut your classics with electronica and House, there’s a gutsy and artistic way to do it and there’s a soulless and obvious way to do it. These incredibly bodacious young women (and whatever producer ultimately controls their sound) chose the latter.
I have a shelf of CDs with fabulous, leggy pin-ups on the cover and mediocre music inside. I bought them for the pin-up and listened to the music one time only. Bond is very much at home on that shelf, bumping hips and trading makeup tips with Candy Dulfer, Taylor Dane, Shania Twain, Milla Jovovich, and a host–I should say bevy–of others. Buying their albums does not bring you one step closer to having sweet, blissful, unprotected sex with them. It just doesn’t.
Tia Carrere and Jennifer Love Hewitt have a couple CDs each, don’t forget!
I like some of the stuff I’ve heard from Bond, but nothing I’d listen to on a regular basis (I’m not even the world’s biggest string quartet fan). They’re all pretty hot, but their music is way too overproduced for my taste.
I like Bond, and I’m a straight chick. I have Born and Classified on my iPod, and listen whenever I need some upbeat instrumental background music (regular classical music rarely works as “background” for me, because I always find myself paying attention to it). In fact, I mentioned them in a recent “study music” thread. IMHO it’s light, fun music – and there’s nothing wrong with that.
I have Born and Classified on my iPod, and listen whenever I need some upbeat instrumental background music (regular classical music rarely works as “background” for me, because I always find myself paying attention to it). In fact, I mentioned them in a recent “study music” thread. IMHO it’s light, fun music – and there’s nothing wrong with that. 
